A Gloomy Halloween For Our Procurement-Related Stocks [Plus+]

It was a dark month for our share portfolio of 20 companies that have an interest in the procurement solutions market. Last month, we were commenting that it was several percentage points ahead of the general stock market performance for the year to date, but that changed in October. Markets were pretty flat through October, but our portfolio lost no less than 6% of its value, to end October less than 5% up year to date, still marginally ahead of the Dow Jones and global indexes but behind the U.K. index performance for 2016.